Corrugated Deli Tray
A deli tray takes more punishment than most food packaging.
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Custom Food Trays in Texas
Texas packaging enquiries have a consistent character: the portions are large, a great deal of the food is smoked, fried or sauced, and a lot of it is served on a tray that has to hold serious weight without folding.
That pushes almost every Texas specification in the same direction — heavier board than a national average would suggest, grease resistance as standard, and depth sized for portions that are genuinely bigger than in most other states.
- 6
- trays shortlisted for this market
- 1 day
- typical quote turnaround
- Freight
- quoted to your address, not ex-works
- Made to order
- no stock sizes to work around
Quotes delivered to Texas
Tell us the tray, the quantity and where it is going. Freight is quoted to your address rather than added later.
Barbecue is a load problem
A tray of brisket, sausage, ribs, sides and bread is a heavy object, it is wet with rendered fat and sauce, and it is frequently carried from a counter to a picnic table by somebody holding a drink in the other hand. That combination — weight, grease and one-handed carrying — is close to the hardest case for a board tray.
The specification that follows is fluted board rather than folding, a grease-resistant food-contact face without exception, and depth sized for the sides as well as the meat. Where trays are carried any distance, reinforced hand holes are worth the space they take out of the print area.
Texas formats in demand
Barbecue trays
Deep fluted trays with a grease-resistant face, sized for a full plate with sides. Often the single highest-volume line in a Texas operation.
Tex-Mex formats
Taco holders, nacho trays with dip wells, and combination trays that carry a main plus rice and beans in one container.
Concession carriers
College and professional sports are a substantial trade here, and the carrier tray is what sets the transaction value on a concourse.
Gulf seafood
Boil and shellfish formats along the coast, which need a genuine moisture barrier rather than a grease-resistant face alone.
Heat, in storage as much as in service
Texas summers affect stored packaging more than most operators expect. Board held in an unconditioned store room or a trailer through a hot, humid stretch can lose stiffness before it is ever used, and coatings behave differently at high temperatures.
Store stock in the coolest, driest space available, keep it in its cartons until needed, and order in quantities you will use within a reasonable period rather than holding a year of stock through a summer.
Trays we supply to Texas
Chosen against the requirements described above, not as a general catalogue listing.
Stadium Carrier Tray
A stadium carrier has to be usable by somebody walking up concrete steps in a crowd, holding a phone, wearing a coat, in the dark.
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Corrugated Crawfish Tray
A crawfish tray carries several pounds of hot, wet, seasoned shellfish, often with corn and potatoes, straight out of a boil.
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Kraft Taco Holder
A taco holder does one thing: it stops tacos falling over.
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Corrugated Food Tray
Corrugated trays exist for one reason: a loaded tray that has to be picked up from the middle without folding in half.
View tray & get pricing →Supplying Texas: common questions
What tray suits a barbecue plate?
A deep fluted tray with a grease-resistant food-contact face, sized for the meat and the sides together. Fat and sauce go into untreated board within minutes, and folding board of any caliper will flex under a full plate.
Do I need hand holes on a barbecue tray?
If customers carry loaded trays any distance, yes. They need reinforced walls to survive the load, and they take space out of your print area, so decide before artwork rather than after.
What about crawfish and Gulf seafood?
That needs a genuine moisture barrier rather than grease resistance alone — hot, wet and heavy at once is the hardest case for board. See the crawfish tray for how we specify it.
Does the summer heat affect stored packaging?
It can. Board takes on moisture from humid air and loses stiffness, and coatings behave differently when hot. Store stock in the coolest dry space you have and avoid holding a full year of stock through a Texas summer.
Are Texas portions really bigger?
In our experience, consistently. A tray sized from a national average tends to come up short here, which is why we size from your actual portions rather than a nominal figure.
Can you supply stadium and college concessions?
Yes. The carrier tray is the highest-leverage item — it sets how much one customer can carry, and therefore buy, at the busiest moment of an event. Cup holes have to be cut to your actual cups.
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Send the specification, the quantity and the delivery address. We come back with unit price, tooling if any, freight and a real production date.